People assume that herbal extracts are pretty much the same. Nothing could be further from the truth. It is no accident that Prostavar is the finest prostate support supplement available. Its success and effectiveness at reducing swollen and enlarged prostates is, in large part, due to our Super Critical Extraction Process – the cleanest, purest way to extract the plant. A great herbal extract starts with great fresh herbs, but doesn’t end there, no more than a fine wine starts and ends with the grape. Superbalife International is deeply respectful of both the herb and how it is extracted, so that we can deliver the full spectrum of the plant’s health-giving phytonutrients.

Superbalife International utilizes a Super Critical Extraction Process for Prostavar that uses no hexane or solvents, producing a wholeness of herbal extract that was unprecedented at its introduction -- and still rare today.


This advanced extraction process yields a superior herbal extract that is highly concentrated, and far superior to the common industry powdered herbal formulas.

By now everyone has heard about plant “polyphenols” and essential oils, and people just assume that when they take an herb they are getting all of the herb’s beneficial constituents. People also assume that herbal extracts are pretty much the same, like bottled water or jars of peanut butter. Maybe, people think, there could be some slight flavor variations, but water is generally water and peanut butter is peanut butter. But these are profoundly incorrect assumptions for traditional herbs, for the beneficial effects of an herbal extract depend on a number of important and precise factors, starting with the quality of the fresh botanical ingredient.

The Super Critical Process is extraordinarily complex and high-tech, but at its core we think it is rather easy to understand. Here is a short “botany” lesson: there are two major groupings of phytochemicals, or plant constituents, that are generally extracted. One type of plant constituent “likes” water, and is thus willing to be dissolved in water (like in making a tea, which is simply a hot water extract) or a related solution like ethanol. The other type of plant constituent “dislikes” water, avoids it totally (like oil and water!), and is thus unwilling to be dissolved in it. These water-avoiding constituents are fatty or oily in nature, and they are willing to dissolve only in “lipophilic” or fat-loving solutions. To extract an “oily” constituent, people conventionally either dissolved the herb in a chemical solvent or heated the herb to beyond boiling, evaporating out the water-based ingredients. That is the sum and substance of conventional extraction: a water-loving constituent either can be dissolved in a water or alcohol solution, or it is fatty or oily and needs to be dissolved in a different manner. We should note that some lipophilic substances can be extracted with ethanol, but it is not the preferred extraction method for those substances.

Super Potent and Highly Concentrated
The Supercritical Extraction process delivers a superior extract that is highly concentrated. We start with the best herbs, many of them organically grown, then use this state of the art process to produce a super-potent extract. In fact, we reduce as much as 150 pounds of fresh herb to create just 1 pound of extract.

Super Purity, Broad Spectrum and Chemical Free
With Prostavar, you get the maximum nutritional, protective benefits of the whole herb, complete with all of nature’s healing wisdom. Most other brands extract using only a tiny part of the herb - an isolated chemical constituent that is missing the full spectrum of nature’s phytonutrients. The Saw Palmetto, Beta-Sitosterol, Pygeum Africanum, Quercetin, Stinging Nettle, Phytosterol and other compounds in Prostavar are highly concentrated due to our Super Critical Extraction Process.

Industrial Solvents? Never.
Most other brands use harsh industrial solvents like hexane and acetone to extract their herbs. These same chemicals are used to make varnish, paint thinner, nail polish remover, glue and are even used in dry cleaning. Do you really want these residues in your herbal supplements?

How Supercritical (Hexane-Free) Extraction Works
Rather than using a chemical solvent to extract the herb’s nutrients, like a dry cleaner would use chemicals to remove a stain, we use a natural compound: compressed carbon dioxide (CO2). It’s a harmless natural gas found in the air we breathe and absorbed by plants every day to sustain their life. And unlike chemical extraction, our process doesn’t contaminate the herb, the environment or your body. We then highly compress this natural gas so that it “rushes through” the natural source with incredible force and speed. This gives you an extract that is all-natural, super potent, super pure and full of the precious, vital, life enhancing plant ingredients your body needs.